Career Planning Tools and Assessments

Career & Transfer Center, 1st floor Cascadia Building, Kodiak Corner
phone: 425.352.8220
fax: 425.352.8137
careeradvising@cascadia.edu

SKILLS, INTERESTS, OCCUPATIONAL, AND PERSONALITY Assessments available at Cascadia Community College

WOIS/The Career Information System

A complete career planning and assessment package customized with added occupational information specific to Washington State. At www.wois.org you will find all the WOIS descriptions of occupations, educational programs, schools, and military occupations.

Assessment Tools:

• Work Importance Locator - Results reflect what values are most important to you and provide a list of those occupations that reflect the values as you have ranked them.
• Skills Assessment - identify occupations that match your skills and how your skills match the Holland Personality Types, occupational clusters, and specific occupations to explore.
• Interest Profiler - The Interest Profiler helps you find out what your interests are and how they relate to the world of work. It does this by asking you to answer questions that represent important interest areas. Your Interest Profiler scores will help you identify your strongest work-related interests. Knowing your work interests can help you decide what kinds of jobs and careers you want to explore.

For those who like to stay organized, WOIS offers a Portfolio component where you can store information about your career research and experiences. The portfolio allows easy recording of information about Educational Plans, Assessments taken, Work and Community Experiences and Career Research. WOIS is available in the Student Development Center located in the Library Annex. Temporary login information for access from home is available. No appointment is necessary.

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Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

A 20-minute pen and paper assessment that looks at 16 different personality types that are a result of four opposing pairs. These pairs include: Extraversion or Introversion, Perceiving or Intuition, Thinking or Feeling, and Judging or Perceiving. The indicator is useful in identifying your personality characteristics, leadership style, way of communicating, and how you work with others. Administered by advisors located in Student Advising & Support Services. Please allow one hour for testing. Cost - $25.00 fee pre-paid at Enrollment Services in Kodiak Corner.

Strong Interest Inventory

A 45-minute pencil and paper inventory consisting of 317 questions. The resulting score is based on the six Holland Themes, 25 basic interests, 109 contemporary occupations and four personal styles. The Inventory is useful for individuals who are unclear of their career path and/or options. Administered by Advisors located in Student Advising & Support Services. Inventory may be taken home or completed at Cascadia. After completion, the inventory will be mailed out for scoring. Cost - $25.00 fee pre-paid at Enrollment Services in Kodiak Corner.

On-line Personality Assessments

• Wetfeet® - A listing of online career personality assessment tests.



• South Central Career Information Center - A site with many useful links to self-assessment and career development tools.



• Keirsey - The Keirsey Temperament Sorter was developed by Dr. Keirsey and is based on multiple psychology theories. It is similar to the Meyer-Briggs Type Indicator in that it assesses your personality preferences and shows how you look at things and make decisions.



• Kingdomality - The Kingdomality Personal Preference Profile is a fun personality assessment that clarifies your personality in medieval terms, but relates your profile to current occupations.

On-line Interest Assessments

• the career key™ - The Career Key was developed by Dr. Lawrence Jones and helps with career choices, career changes, career planning, job search, and choosing a college major or training program.



• Myfuture.com - The Interest-Finder Quiz consists of 60 test items which determine your profile based on two of the six Holland work types (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, or Conventional).

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